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  • Page 2 Mini-101U 10M/100Mbps USB2.0 Print Server Mini-101U...
  • Page 3 Seeking for service or searching for an agent or a distributor Thank you for purchasing products from Planex Communications Inc. If you have any operational problems while con guring or setting up the product, you may contact with our Customer Service Department or ask the agent or the distributor from which you bought the product for help.
  • Page 4 FCC Certifications This Equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Foreword Chapter 1 Introduction to Mini-101U ....1 1. Contents of Package ....1 2.
  • Page 6 Chapter 3 Advanced Setup & Configuration ..81 1. IPP(Interent Printer Protocol) ..81 2. How to Install Network Printer on Apple OS/X. . 85 Mini-101U Contents...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Introduction To Mini-101U

    Peer Printing), TCP/IP (LPR), IPP, NetWare Bindery, AppleTalk, SMB protocols. With the help of the installation wizard of Mini-101U, you can set up and configure the settings easily and completely and enjoy the convenience brought by it instantly. The following chapters will introduce you the fantastic functions of Mini-101U, the installation methods, and system configuration in different environments.

  • Page 8: Specification

    SNMP can access and manage it. Network Configuration Mini-101U has a built-in Web server, thus it can access its settings through Web browsers, such as IE, Netscape, Firefox, and so on. It also supports Server Manager utility program, which uses Windows Interface, so it can help an administrator to set up and manage every setting easily.

  • Page 9: Product Functions

    The Status LED will be on only when printing or Status there are some problems with the printer or the print server. After power on Mini-101U, its Ready LED will be Ready on all the time, and it means you may start to use it. Button Function...

  • Page 10: How To Set Up Mini-101U3

    Print Server and it will automatically start the POST (Power-On-Self- Test). While detecting, the Ready LED will be on and LAN LED will be blinking for a while and then the Mini-101U will be ready in a short time. Plug the AC Adapter which comes with Mini-101U in a different voltage power supply will cause damage on Mini-101U, and it is not included in warranty.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration

    Basic Setup & Configuration 1.Software Installation & Setup In order to meet users'network printing needs in nowadays heterogeneous and multiple protocol networking environments, Mini-101U Print Server supports industrial standard protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI and AppleTalk. It also supports many kinds of Operating Systems, such as NetWare, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, UNIX system, and Macintosh Computer;...
  • Page 12 101U Print Server. Please make sure that your operating system already enabled your interface card on the host and connected to one of the LAN ports on Mini-101U through Cat.5 cable. Be sure that LEDs on Mini-101U are already on.

  • Page 13: Administrator Installation

    (default IP Address of Mini-101U) on the Address Bar in the web browser. If you have changed the default IP Address of Mini-101U, please type in the new address on the address bar. 1.1.Administrator Installation The installation wizard will install the following programs:...
  • Page 14 1.Put the Mini-101U CD-ROM into the CD-ROM driver, and go to the root directory. Double click on PCI PS Utilities-Admin(Multilingual).exe and you can start to install the print server and set up the printer which connects with Mini-101U. The following pictures of installing Utilities and Driver are all captured from Windows XP operating system.
  • Page 15 4.Click Next to install the utility into the default folder C:\Program Files\PrintServer Utilities, or you can click Change to assign another location for the utilities. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 16 5.You may choose the programs which you want to use in the following page. We suggest that you should install both these two components to have better control over Mini-101U Print Server. Click Next to continue installing. 6.Click Install to start the installation.
  • Page 17 7.The wizard will start to install the utilities. After completing the installation, it will show the detected print server on the list and you may start to configure the print server. Choose print server list will show all the print servers on the LAN. If the print server you want to configure does not show on the list, please click Refresh .
  • Page 18 9.You can click Assign the Print Server an IP address to manually set up an IP address for Mini-101U or you can just click Next and leave the default IP address. The default IP address of Mini-101U Print Server is 192.168.1.200 .
  • Page 19 10.Enter the Add Network Port page, the left side of the page will show the previous configuration. If the settings are correct, click Finish to proceed. 11.At last, it will show the InstallShield Wizard Complete page. Click Finish to exit the installation wizard program. Chapter 2 Basic Setup &...

  • Page 20: How To Use Printserver Configuration Utility

    101U Print Server. 1.2. How to Use PrintServer Con guration Utility 1.2.1. PrintServer Con guration 1.Double click on the PrintServer Configuration icon to use the utility. The Server Manager will start to search for the print servers present on the LAN. Mini-101U...
  • Page 21 2.The detected print servers will list under the Mini-101U. And at the bottom of the right side of the page will show 1 server found message. If the print server just initializes and has not been found, you may click and search again.
  • Page 22 Right side of the window will show you the MAC ID, Model Type, Firmware Version, and etc. 4.You can follow the steps and set up Mini-101U Print Server on the network through the Print Server Setup Wizard in the Server Manager utility.
  • Page 23 5.Before entering the wizard, you must key in the User Name and Password for Mini-101U Print Sever. The default User Name is admin and Password is 0000 . If you want to change the password, please click and go to General settings to configure it.
  • Page 24 IP for Mini-101U. If the LAN does not have any DHCP server, you can choose DHCP Server to enable the DHCP server in Mini-101U. If you do not know the related settings of DHCP Server, you can just choose DHCP Server Auto.
  • Page 25 Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 26 Name of AppleTalk, you can fill in the blank with * or specified your AppleTalk Zone. The Printer Type Port 1 shows the type of the printer which connecting to the Mini-101U print server. Click Next to continue setting up.
  • Page 27 11.Print Server Setup Wizard will show you all the setting you just configured and if the settings are correct, click Save. If you want to change any settings, you can click Back to go back to the previous setting pages, or click Cancel and set it up later. 12.After clicking Save, it will show the following warning at once.
  • Page 28 But before you start changing the settings, it will ask you to enter the User Name and the Password. Key in admin as the User Name and 0000 as the Password, and you may start setting up the print server. Mini-101U...
  • Page 29 15.Click the icon on the Setup page, it will show you the information about the device which you are using now. And you can change the Server Name or put a check in the Set User Name/Password checkbox to change the password of the admin (Server Manager). Click Save to activate the settings.
  • Page 30 DHCP Server. If you do not know the related settings of DHCP Server, you can just choose DHCP Server Auto. But before configuring DHCP server, you have to choose assign a static IP address for Mini-101U, then you can continue configure DHCP Server. Click Save to apply the settings. Mini-101U...
  • Page 31 Polling Time interval for several seconds. NetWare Server blank in the File Server to be serviced column can be filled in the Print ServerName showing in the NetWare ree for Mini-101U Print Server. Click Save to enable the settings.
  • Page 32 , SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol which uses on controlling and monitoring the network device from the remote network. You need fill the information in Contact and Location field. Enter the user name in Contact column and the IP address in Location column. Mini-101U...
  • Page 33 20.Click . Mini-101U Print Server supports SMB (Server Message Block) protocol; users can send printing jobs through the Network Neighborhood without installing any drivers of the print servers. SMB Group Name can let you choose a group name on the Network Neighborhood for the print server.
  • Page 34 22.If you want to update firmware, please go to Planex Communication Inc. website: http://www.planex.net to find the suitable version of firmware, and download it to your computer. After that, click icon to browse the files and find the latest firmware file you've downloaded.
  • Page 35 Yes . If you want to restore the system settings later, you can click No . 24.If you want to check related information about Mini-101U, you can click icon on the task bar and it will show as the following picture.

  • Page 36: Network Ports Quick Setup

    If you do not need to use the port temporarily, you can click the arrowhead to the left, and make print server port to the left Available Ports box. Click right arrowhead can choose and configure the port again. Mini-101U...
  • Page 37 3.If you have already chosen and configured the print server port, Mini- 101U will automatically add a printer port in the computer. You can click Start Settings Printers and Faxes and check the setting of the printer there. 4.Enter the settings of the printer page, and click File Server Properties to check the properties of the server.

  • Page 38: Remote Ports

    Remote port list box. 3.In order to use remote ports, you have to Add a new printer and choose the remote port which you just configured as the printer port which you want to use. Mini-101U...

  • Page 39: Uninstall

    1.2.4. Uninstall If you want to install any new versions of utilities or drivers, please uninstall all the components of the current utilities and drivers. At first, click Start Programs PrintServer Utilities and choose on the list. After choosing the language you want to use, the InstallShield Wizard will ask you if you really want to completely remove the selected application and all of its components.

  • Page 40: Add A New Printer On Windows

    1.Click Start Settings Printers on the task bar to start adding a printer. Add Printer Wizard might need the driver for your printer, please prepare the print server's driver disk or download the driver from the Internet in advance. Mini-101U...
  • Page 41 2.Enter the Printers setting page, please click Add Printer Open and then the Add Printer Wizard window will pop up. Click Next to continue adding a printer. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 42 And click Next to continue adding a printer. If there does not have the driver for your printer or your printer has the latest driver, you can click Have Disk to find the file of the printer's driver. Mini-101U...
  • Page 43 5.If you click Have disk , you will have to click Browse to find the folder which has the printer's driver. After making sure of the manufacture and the printer's model name, please click Next to continue adding the printer. 6.After installing the driver for the printer, Windows98 will as you to choose the printer port type.
  • Page 44 7.You can give the printer a new name or you can just leave the default name and click Finish. 8.After finishing copying the printer's driver, it will show the following notice to tell you the setup is completed. Click OK to exit Add Printer Wizard. Mini-101U...
  • Page 45 9.To make sure that you already installed the printer completely, please go back to the desktop and click Start Settings Printers on the task bar. There will show you the icon of the printer which you just installed. Right click on the printer icon and then click Properties. Choose the Details tab to check if the printer port was installed correctly (It should show the name of PSxxxxxx-P1).

  • Page 46: Windows Me

    10.If you want to print test page and check if the connection between print server and printer is O.K., please click General Print Test Page. 2.2. Windows ME 1.Click Start Settings Printers on the task bar to start adding a printer. Mini-101U...
  • Page 47 2.Enter the Printers setting page, please click Add Printer Open. 3.And then the Add Printer Wizard window will pop up. Click Next to continue adding a printer. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 48 And click Next to continue adding a printer. If there does not have the driver for your printer or your printer has the latest driver, you can click Have Disk to find the file of the printer's driver. Mini-101U...
  • Page 49 6.If you click Have disk , you will have to click Browse to find the folder which has the printer's driver. After making sure of the manufacture and the printer's model name, please click Next to continue adding the printer. 7.After installing the driver for the printer, Windows ME will as you to choose the printer port type.
  • Page 50 8.You can give the printer a new name or you can just leave the default name and click Finish. 9.After finishing copying the printer's driver, it will show the following notice to tell you the setup is completed. Click OK to exit Add Printer Wizard. Mini-101U...
  • Page 51 10.To make sure that you already installed the printer completely, please go back to the desktop and click Start Settings Printers on the task bar. There will show you the icon of the printer which you just installed. Right click on the printer icon and then click Properties. Choose the Details tab to check if the printer port was installed correctly (It should show the name of PSxxxxxx-P1).

  • Page 52: Windows 2000

    11.If you want to print test page and check if the connection between print server and printer is O.K., please click General Print Test Page. 2.3. Windows 2000 1.Click Start Settings Printers on the task bar to start adding a printer. Mini-101U...
  • Page 53 2.Enter the Printers setting page, please click Add Printer Open. 3.And then the Add Printer Wizard window will pop up. Click Next to continue adding a printer. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 54 Plug and Play printer. Click Next to continue adding a new printer. 5.Please choose PSxxxxxx-P1 (xxxxxx is the last 6 digit of your print server's MAC ID). Click Next to go to the next step. Mini-101U...
  • Page 55 6.Please choose the model of your printer according to the printer you are connecting to. And click Next to continue adding a printer. If there does not have the driver for your printer or your printer has the latest driver, you can click Have Disk to find the file of the printer's driver.
  • Page 56 8.You can give the printer a new name or you can just leave the default name and click Finish. 9.The Wizard will ask you if you want to share this printer with others. You can choose Do not share this printer or Share as . Click Next to continue installing. Mini-101U...
  • Page 57 10.The Wizard will ask you if you want to print a test page. You can click Yes here and start printing, or click No to print a test page later. Click Next to finish adding a new printer. 11.The system will automatically complete adding the printer and show the information as follows.
  • Page 58 There will show you the icon of the printer which you just installed. Right click on the printer icon and then click Properties. Choose the Ports tab to check if the printer port was installed correctly (It should show the name of PSxxxxxx-P1). Click OK to exit. Mini-101U...

  • Page 59: Windows Xp

    13.If you want to print test page and check if the connection between print server and printer is O.K., please click General Print Test Page. 2.4. Windows XP 1.Click Start Settings Printers and Faxes on the task bar to start adding a printer.
  • Page 60 2.Enter the Printers setting page, please double click on Add a Printer icon. 3.And then the Add Printer Wizard window will pop up. Click Next to continue adding a printer. Mini-101U...
  • Page 61 4.Choose Local printer attached to this computer and cancel the check in the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer. Click Next to continue adding a new printer. 5.Please choose Use the following port: PSxxxxxx-P1 (Print Server Network Port) (xxxxxx is the last 6 digit of your print server's MAC ID).
  • Page 62 Have Disk to find the file of the printer's driver. 7.If you click Have disk , you will have to click Browse find the folder which has the printer's driver. Mini-101U...
  • Page 63 8.You can give the printer a new name or you can just leave the default name and click Finish. 9.The Wizard will ask you if you want to print a test page. You can click Yes here and start printing, or click No to print a test page later. Click Next to finish adding a new printer.
  • Page 64 There will show you the icon of the printer which you just installed. Right click on the printer icon and then click Properties. Choose the Ports tab to check if the printer port was installed correctly (It should show the name of PSxxxxxx-P1). Click OK to exit. Mini-101U...
  • Page 65 12.If you want to print test page and check if the connection between print server and printer is O.K., please click General Print Test Page. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...

  • Page 66: Web Setup And Configuration

    3.1 Web Management Interface If the IP address of your Mini-101U print server has been set, you should be able to manage its status from a web browser. The print server status menu can assist administrators in managing the latest status of the systems and printers connected with the print server, and also NetWare, TCP/IP, SNMP, and AppleTalk protocols.
  • Page 67 If you are using a public PC, we do not recommend you to use this function. The default User Name of Mini-101U is admin and password is 0000. We suggest that you should change the password as soon as possible.

  • Page 68: Device Setup Status

    3.2 Device Setup Status 3.2.1 System After logging in the system, Mini-101U status page will display the current system status. You can view the latest system status and the current printing job status. Device Name Mini-101U can detect the device name automatically and shows the last 6 digit of its MAC ID and a prefix PS in the front.

  • Page 69: Printer

    3.2.2. Printer Click Device Setup and it will display a subdirectory. Then click Printer, the following page will show you the status and information of the printer which connects with the print server. Manufacturer You can check the manufacturer of the printer connected to printer server.

  • Page 70: Tcp/Ip

    (The default IP address is 192.168.1.200) Subnet Mask This entry shows the subnet mask of the print server. Gateway It shows the IP address of the print server's gateway. Use DHCP Server This entry will tell you the DHCP server is Off or On. Mini-101U...

  • Page 71: Smb

    3.2.4. SMB Click Device Setup and then click SMB, the following page will display. It shows the SMB settings of the print server. SMN function The SMB function can be Enable or Disable. SMB Group Name You can check the SMB Group Name of Mini- 101U Print Server on Windows network here.

  • Page 72: Snmp

    Click Device Setup and then click SNMP, the following page will show. And it display the SNMP settings of this print server. SNMP System Contact This entry shows the related information about the print server's manager. SNMP System Location This entry displays the location where the print server locates. Mini-101U...

  • Page 73: Netware

    NetWare server on the network for every period of time. NetWare Bindery Settings Use Bindery Mode You may choose whether Mini-101U need to use/ enable Bindery mode or disable this function. Name of the File Server Here shows the NetWare server which is providing the service now.

  • Page 74: Appletalk

    Printer 1 Printer Type This setting shows the type of the printer which connects to the print server. If you are using PostScript printer, you can choose LaserWriter 8 icon on your Macintosh Computer to set up the printer's driver. Mini-101U...

  • Page 75: Setup Wizard Status

    System Settings Print Server Name You can give Mini-101U Print Server a new name and fill the name in this blank. Password This password is used for entering the Web configuration page.

  • Page 76: Advanced Settings

    You can set the print server's two-way printing functions by Enable or Disable the item. IPX Internet Packet eXchange is a kind of protocol which set up by Novell, if you want Mini-101U support IPX protocol please select enable . TCP/IP Printing (LPR/IPP/RAW/SMB) Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol supports LPR/IPP/RAW/SMB printing.

  • Page 77: Tcp/Ip

    3.3.3. TCP/IP Click Setup Wizard on the web browser of the print server's home page. And click TCP/IP then it will show the following picture. You can change the TCP/IP settings of the print server on this page. Chapter 2 Basic Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 78 IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway Address which are at the same network with your computer. If you want to let Mini-101U provide Internet printing function, you will have to configure the Gateway Address; otherwise, you can leave it blank.

  • Page 79: Smb

    3.3.4. SMB Mini-101U Print Server supports SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Users can use Network Neighbor to pass printing jobs without installing the driver of the print server. Click Setup Wizard on the web browser of the print server's home page.

  • Page 80: Snmp

    SNMP of the print server on this page. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol which uses on controlling and monitoring the network device from the remote network. You need fill the information in Contact and Location field. Mini-101U...

  • Page 81: Netware

    And click NetWare then it will show the following picture. You can change the NetWare settings of the print server on this page General Settings Polling Time The polling interval of Mini-101U can be set from 3 to 29 seconds. NetWare Bindery Settings...

  • Page 82: Appletalk

    3.3.7. AppleTalk Mini-101U Print Server accepts the printing job sent from the Macintosh workstation by using AppleTalk protocol through the Ethernet. To do the basic print server setup in the AppleTalk environment, you only need to open Chooser window and choose a printer which connects to the print server, and then you can start printing.

  • Page 83: Save Settings

    3.3.8. Save Settings After finishing all the settings and click Save & Next, it will show the save settings and reboot dialog box. Click OK to continue, and please DO NOT shut down the power when system rebooting. After 20 seconds, the system will complete saving the settings and show the Reboot process is complete box, please click OK to go back to the system status page.

  • Page 84: System Tools System

    3.4. System Tools System 3.4.1. Load Default When the system of Mini-101U Print Server has error or wrong configuration, you may click System Tools Load Default and the following page will show. If you want to load factory default, please click If you click OK to load default, the previous settings will be erased.

  • Page 85: Upgrade From Browser

    . Upgrade the wrong firmware file will make Mini-101U cannot work, and this kind of upgrade failure we will take it as operation error, thus we will charge service fee when repairing.
  • Page 86 DO NOT cut off the power by haphazard, or the firmware upgrade might be failed and cause the system disorder. Please DO NOT cut off the power or close the upgrading program until the system notify that the system upgrading successful. Mini-101U...

  • Page 87: Chapter 3 Advanced Setup & Configuration

    Advanced Setup & Configuration 1. IPP(Internet Printer Protocol) Mini-101U supports IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). You can install proper software to set up an IPP printing path on your Operating System, for example, on Windows OS. If you are using Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 OS, you can use web browser supported by the OS to check print server's built-in web server.
  • Page 88 3.Choose Network Printer and click Next to go on setting up. 4.Choose Connect to a printer on the Internet or on your intranet and enter the IP address and port number 631 of Mini-101U after a colon in the URL column. After that, you have to put the appointed print server name after the URL you just filled in.
  • Page 89 If the system can connect with the print server and show the following page, you may click OK to continue installing. 5.If the system shows you the following dialog box, it means the name of the print or the printer s URL might be wrong. Please check your settings and correct the name or the URL of the printer.
  • Page 90 7.The wizard will show the following page and you may click Finish to complete the installation of IPP printer. Mini-101U...

  • Page 91: How To Install Network Printer On Apple Os/X

    2. How to Install Network Printer on Apple OS/X Mini-101U also supports installation of Network printer on Apple OS/X. Please follow the steps below to set up the Network printer. Because Apple OS/X does not support many drivers of the printers, you have to make sure you have the driver of your printer or Apple OS/X does support the driver of your printer.
  • Page 92 2.Click on Print and FAX icon. 3.After entering the Print and FAX page, please click on Setting Printer Mini-101U...
  • Page 93 4.Click on Add icon to add a new printer. 5.Choose AppleTalk and wait for a while to let Apple OS/X search for the print servers on the network. Chapter 3 Advanced Setup & Configuration...
  • Page 94 6.If Mini-101U has already activated on the LAN, and has enabled the related settings of Apple on the Web and utility, Apple OS/X will automatically detect the devices which support AppleTalk. Please choose Local AppleTalk Zone, and the window will show you the name of Mini-101U as PSxxxxxx_P1.
  • Page 95 8.Choose the manufacture of your printer. If you have the compatible or latest driver of your printer which supports Apple OS/X, please install it first and then enter Print and FAX after finishing installing. 9.Choose the suitable driver for your printer on the list, and click Add to finish installing adding a printer.
  • Page 96 10.The list of the printers will show the printer which you just added, and you may print a test page to make sure the printer can work properly. Mini-101U...

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